Manually calling Makefile.PL, again

… Secondly PREFIX is batshit insane, if you think you know how it works you’re wrong.

Thirdly, this is likely to break on XS modules, given you’re not including the archlib…"

Ouch!

Leon has a huge amount of experience with the module building tool chain, so normally he is someone I’d like to be paying attention to. And in one way he’s right – my understanding of EU::MM is very superficial.

However, calling Makefile.PL in this way works, and works well. I’ve installed over 100 modules with exactly this incantion.